49 Fun Facts About Scarlet Witch

In WandaVision, Wanda's fantasy world moves through decades of which kind of TV show?

Sitcoms. Each early episode copies a different era's style, and the makers had lunch with Dick Van Dyke to learn how his 1960s show was done.

Who created the Scarlet Witch?

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. On the back of an early page, Kirby scribbled names he tried and dropped for her, including Jinx, Witch Woman and Miss Witch.

She is best known as an Avenger, but the Scarlet Witch first appeared in which Marvel comic?

The X-Men. She arrived in 1964 as a reluctant villain fighting its mutant heroes, and it was another year before she switched sides and became an Avenger.

Who is the Scarlet Witch's twin brother?

Quicksilver. Fiercely protective of his sister, he left villainy with her and joined the Avengers a year after their debut.

Which villain team did the Scarlet Witch belong to when she debuted?

The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. She and her brother were reluctant members who wanted shelter from persecution, not conquest, and both left to become heroes a year later.

In the comics, what was the Scarlet Witch's original power when she debuted in 1964?

Manipulating probability. Her 'hex' made unlikely accidents befall her enemies; only later did writers recast it as true magic that rewrites reality.

Which actor plays the Vision, Wanda's android partner, in the MCU?

Paul Bettany. He had only been a voice in the films, as Tony Stark's AI butler J.A.R.V.I.S., until Age of Ultron gave the character a body.

What are the superhero names of the Scarlet Witch's reincarnated sons?

Wiccan and Speed. The two Young Avengers worked out that they were the reborn souls of the twins Wanda had lost, then set out to find her.

The Scarlet Witch joined a 1965 Avengers line-up led by Captain America, nicknamed what?

Cap's Kooky Quartet. The founders all stepped away at once, leaving Captain America with three reformed villains.

What name do the comics and the MCU both give the Scarlet Witch's reality-bending magic?

Chaos magic. In WandaVision a rival witch names it for her: 'This is chaos magic, Wanda. And that makes you the Scarlet Witch.'

From whom does Wanda learn witchcraft in the comics?

Agatha Harkness. The ancient witch first turned up in the comics as the Fantastic Four's nanny, then took Wanda on as a pupil and turned her hexes into real spells.

Which Marvel villain was written for over thirty years as the father of Wanda and her twin?

Magneto. A 1982 miniseries made him their father, and the idea stuck until a 2014 crossover revealed the twins were not his children after all.

Which demon absorbed Wanda's twin sons in John Byrne's run?

Mephisto. In that story the twins were shards of the demon's own soul, so he took them back, and Wanda's memory of them was wiped.

The husband-and-wife songwriters of which Disney film wrote WandaVision's theme songs?

Frozen. Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez wrote a new theme in the style of each TV era the show visits, after its director, an old college friend, pitched it to them.

What colour is the rebuilt Vision sent to destroy Wanda in the WandaVision finale?

White. Wanda's own Vision stops the ghostly copy with a debate about the Ship of Theseus, unlocking its memories until it flies off instead of fighting.

Which 2004 storyline saw Wanda turn on her teammates and destroy their mansion?

Avengers Disassembled. A stray remark about motherhood brought back the memory of her lost twins, and she turned on the team she blamed for losing them.

In which 2005 crossover does Wanda warp reality and then depower most mutants?

House of M. Three words did it: she said 'No more mutants', and all but a handful of the world's mutants lost their powers, a day the comics call M-Day.

In Avengers: The Children's Crusade, an amnesiac Wanda is found engaged to marry which villain?

Doctor Doom. Her reborn sons track her to his kingdom of Latveria, where she has lost her memory, and the dictator wants her power for himself.

A 2015 retcon credited Wanda and Pietro's powers to which geneticist's experiments?

The High Evolutionary. The twist meant the twins had never been mutants at all: their gifts came from his tampering with them as infants.

In the MCU, which Hydra leader oversaw the experiments that gave Wanda and her brother their powers?

Baron Strucker. The twins volunteered for his tests with Loki's sceptre, and they proved to be the only subjects to survive them.

The Scarlet Witch married the Vision in a 1975 double wedding alongside which future Guardian of the Galaxy?

Mantis. The same ceremony wed her to an alien being inhabiting the body of her dead lover, the Swordsman, and the pair then left Earth for the stars.

Krakoa's mutants cursed Wanda as 'the Pretender' until her resurrection spell earned her which new title?

The Redeemer. Her spell let even long-dead mutants be revived, adding some twenty million to the queue, among them everyone killed on Genosha.

Which elder god claims to have infused Wanda with magic at her birth?

Chthon. He marked the newborn in the hope of one day taking her body as his vessel, and he has tried to possess her since.

On which mountain were the Maximoff twins experimented on as children?

Mount Wundagore. The twins were looked after there by Bova, a cow whom the mountain's resident scientist had given humanoid form.

Who plays the Scarlet Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

Elizabeth Olsen. Director Joss Whedon had first called Saoirse Ronan his 'prototype' for the part, then cast Olsen a few months later, in 2013.

Wanda first appears in the MCU in a mid-credits scene after which Captain America film?

The Winter Soldier. The 2014 scene shows her and her brother as caged Hydra test subjects, a year before the pair's full debut in Age of Ultron.

Which fictional Eastern European country is the MCU Wanda from?

Sokovia. A missile killed her parents in their flat there, and a second one, stamped with the Stark name, lay unexploded beside the trapped twins for two days.

Which Infinity artefact did Hydra use to awaken Wanda's powers in the MCU?

The Mind Stone. It was hidden inside Loki's sceptre, and WandaVision later revealed that it had only woken a magic she was born with.

Which Avenger does Wanda fail to subdue with visions in Age of Ultron?

Clint Barton. Hawkeye catches her creeping up on him and tells her: 'I've done the whole mind control thing. Not a fan.'

In which city does Wanda accidentally kill Wakandan aid workers in Civil War?

Lagos. She flings a suicide bomber's blast skyward to save Captain America, it tears into a building, and the deaths become the case for putting the Avengers under UN control.

Where is Wanda hiding with her android partner when ambushed in Infinity War?

Edinburgh. The two fugitives had been stealing moments together for two years, and they are out walking its streets at night when Thanos's lieutenants strike.

Which member of the Children of Thanos does Wanda kill in Wakanda?

Proxima Midnight. She has two of Wanda's allies beaten and sneers that Wanda will die alone, so Wanda hurls her into the path of one of the invaders' own war machines.

In which New Jersey town does Wanda create the Hex in WandaVision?

Westview. The name nods to Westfield, the New Jersey hometown of Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige, reworked to give the initials W and V.

Which actress plays the nosy neighbour Agnes, secretly a witch, in WandaVision?

Kathryn Hahn. Her unmasking as the villain comes with its own spoof theme tune, which went viral within days and later won an Emmy for its writers.

Who created WandaVision and served as its head writer?

Jac Schaeffer. She shaped the series around the stages of grief, so it opens in denial and works its way through to acceptance.

WandaVision opened Phase Four instead of which film?

Black Widow. It was due in May 2020 and slipped to July 2021, so a streaming series that began in January 2021 opened the phase a cinema film was meant to launch.

Which actor plays the fake Pietro, really Ralph Bohner, in WandaVision?

Evan Peters. He had played the same speedster in another studio's films, which set off a wave of crossover theories before the finale exposed the fake-out.

Under what alias does Monica Rambeau appear inside the Hex in WandaVision?

Geraldine. The cover ends when she lets slip how Wanda's brother really died, and Wanda hurls her clean out of town.

What beat WandaVision to the 2021 limited-series Emmy?

The Queen's Gambit. WandaVision went in with 23 nominations, the most of any limited series that year, but its three wins all came at the Creative Arts ceremonies.

Which spell book corrupts Wanda after WandaVision?

The Darkhold. She takes it from the witch she defeats in the finale, and by her next film it has turned a grieving mother into the villain.

Whose multiverse-travelling power does Wanda try to steal in Multiverse of Madness?

America Chavez. The teenager can open doorways between universes, and Wanda wants that power to reach a world where her sons are real.

Who directed Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness?

Sam Raimi. He stepped in when Scott Derrickson left over creative differences, and brought the horror touch of his Evil Dead films to the sequel.

Which Earth-838 group does Wanda slaughter in Multiverse of Madness?

The Illuminati. She kills all but one of its members, starting with Black Bolt: she erases his mouth, and his own trapped voice destroys him.

What spell lets Wanda possess alternate versions of herself in Multiverse of Madness?

Dream-walking. Her first attempt is cut short when a sorceress named Sara sacrifices herself to destroy the book the spell is cast from.

How does Wanda's MCU story end in Multiverse of Madness?

She buries herself under a temple. Seeing another universe's Billy and Tommy recoil from her in fear breaks her resolve, and she destroys the book that drove her.

Which 2011 film marked the acting breakthrough of Wanda's MCU actress?

Martha Marcy May Marlene. In her first film she played a young woman who escapes a cult, a role that wowed critics at the 2011 Sundance festival and earned her a Spirit Award nomination.

How does Wanda's twin brother die in Avengers: Age of Ultron?

Shot while shielding others. He takes a hail of gunfire meant for a fellow Avenger and a child, and Wanda feels his death from across the battlefield.

Instead of stunt training, the Scarlet Witch's actress prepared for Age of Ultron by working with whom?

A dancer. The director wanted Wanda to move like a dancer, not a fighter, so her spell-casting gestures were worked out as choreography.

Which secretive agency sets up a base outside Wanda's Hex in WandaVision?

S.W.O.R.D. Its acting director wants Wanda dead, and has secretly been rebuilding the Vision's body as a weapon of his own.